Manfred Gilli (Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva and Swiss Finance Institute) Enrico Schumann (Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva)
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We investigate portfolio selection with alternative objective functions in a distributed computing environment. In particular, we optimise a portfolio's 'Omega' which is the ratio of two partial moments of the returns distributions. Since finding optimal portfolios under such performance measures and realistic constraints leads to non-convex problems, we suggest to solve the problem with a heuristic method called Threshold Accepting (TA). TA is a very flexible technique as it requires no simplifications of the problem and allows for a straightforward implementation of all kinds of constraints. Applying this algorithm to actual data, we find that TA is well-adapted to optimisation problems of this type. Furthermore, we show that the computations can easily be distributed which leads to considerable speedups.
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